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Meme Du Jour

BEST POLL OF THE WEEKEND
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
1778 – The British capture Savannah, GA
1845 – Wearing number 28, the Republic of Texas enters the United States
1849 – Gas lighting is installed in the White House
1851 – The first YMCA opened in the USA in the Old South Church in Boston
1902 – Scott Joplin copyrights ‘The Entertainer’ (and a few other compositions)
1940 – London is devated by German air raid
1965 – A brief Christmas truce in Vietnam as President Johnson works to get both sides to the peace talks
1972 – The last issue of LIFE Magazine is published (It was a double issue ‘The Year In Pictures’)
1989 – Canada is the first nation to ban smoking on all domestic airline flights
1997 – Hong Kong begins massive slaughter of all its chickens due to a bird flu outbreak

News and The Politics out of D.C.
CLIPS
– TRUMP AND ZELENSKYY — MEDIA ASKED, DO YOU HAVE A NEW YEARS DAY DEADLINE?
– ABOUT THE WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE – IT WILL EITHER END OR GO ON FOR A LONG TIME
– TRUMP ASKED IF PUTIN IS SERIOUS ABOUT PEACE?
– PRESSER AFTER – TRUMP ON WHAT HE FEELS WAS ACCOMPLISHED
– ‘WE COULD BE VERY CLOSE (TO PEACE) THERE ARE ONE OR TWO THORNY ISSUES
– THE PRESIDENT WAS ASKED, ‘WHAT’S THE THORNIEST ISSUE?’
– TRUMP IS WILLING TO GO TO UKRAINE IF IT WILL SAVE LIVES
– THE PRESIDENT GIVING PROPS TO HIS PEOPLE
– TRUMP RIBS THE PRESS AT MAR-A-LAGO — ‘WOULD YOU LIKE SOME FOOD OR IS THAT A BRIBE?’
– TRUMP ALSO COMMENTED ON ZELENSKYY’S APPRECIATION OF MAR-A-LAGO
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS RATHER UNFILTERED WHEN SPEAKING ABOUT SOMALI FRAUD IN MN AND SOMALIA
– MN TOM EMMER IS CALLING OUT TIM WALZ AND KEITH ELLISON ABOUT THE FRAUD IN HIS STATE
– EMMER CLAIMS WALZ AND AG ELLISON SHUT DOWN INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE FRAUD
– ANNA PAULINA LUNA IS AS FRUSTRATED AS YOU AND I — WHEN ARE THE ARRESTS HAPPENING?
– SCOTT JENNINGS DEBUNKS THE ‘TRUMP SHUTDOWN’ NARRATIVE PUSHED ON CNN
– JENNINGS ALSO PREDICTED TRUMP WOULD WIN THE NOBEL PRIZE
– SWALWELL SAYS DEMS WILL IMPEACH TRUMP IF THEY WIN CONTROL OF THE HOUSE
– PELOSI ON IMPEACHING TRUMP — HE DID IT TO HIMSELF
– PELOSI IS STILL SELLING THIS IDEA OF AN INSURRECTION FIVE YEARS AGO
– NANCY IS STILL BRAGGING ABOUT TEARING UP TRUMP’S STATE OF THE UNION SPEECH
– BERNIE SANDERS IS BACK ON TV DEMONIZING THE ‘RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD’
– JASMINE CROCKET NEEDS SUBTITLES AGAIN
– THE UN IS CALLING FOR THE U.S. TO BE ISOLATED — (LET’S START BY KICKING THEM OUT OF THE COUNTRY)
– ROSIE SAID SHE WAS TAKING A BREAK FROM TALKING ABOUT TRUMP, SHE CAN’T (SHE’S GETTING WORSE)
– ROSIE ALSO JOINED JIM ACOSTA’S ANTI-TRUMP ECHO CHAMBER
– COLBERT ASKED, ‘IF YOU COULD CHANGE BODIES WITH ONE PERSON FOR 24 HRS?’ (HE SAYS TRUMP)
– BOO HOO — HUNTER BIDEN IS CRYING ABOUT ALL OF THE ATTENTION PAID TO HIM
– FLASHBACK: JIMMY KIMMEL 2021 VS 2025

More News From DC
– PRESIDENT TRUMP IS WILLING TO TRAVEL TO UKRAINE TO TRY AND GET THIS WAR ENDED
– 10 RACES THAT MAY DECIDE WHICH SIDE CONTROLS THE U.S. SENATE
– RATIO OF THE DAY – DE REP (THE TRANS ONE) CELEBRATES KWANZAA AND GETS CALLED OUT
– FBI DIRECTOR PATEL IS MOVING THE AGENCY OUT OF THE HOOVER BUILDING
– VP JD VANCE HAS HIGH PRAISE FOR NICK SHIRLEY’S WORK EXPOSING SOMALI FRAUD IN MN
– FBI DirECTOR PATEL’S UPDATE ON INVESTIGATIONS INTO SOMALI FRAUD IN MN
– THE CURIOUS CASE OF ILHAN OMAR’S HUSBAND’S WEALTH – AND HIS SUDDEN HIDING OF HIS ‘CLIENTS’
– BIG JUMP IN YOUR 401 K SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS RETURNED
– U.S. IS GATHERING FACIAL RECOGNITION DATA ON ALL NON-CITIZENS ENTERING AND LEAVING THE COUNTRY
– BTW – SOMALIA IS PRESIDENT OF THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY
– ALSO, IRAN HAS DECLARED ‘TOTAL WAR’ ON THE U.S. AND THE U.K.
– 18 STATES SET TO BAN JUNK FOOD PURCHASES USING SNAP BENEFITS (ONLY 18?)

THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THE OBVIOUS PROBLEM IN MINNESOTA
General News
– NICK SHIRLEY’S FULL 42 MINUTE REPORT ON WELFARE FRAUD IN MN – (THIS SHOULD INFURIATE YOU)
– SHIRLEY SAYS ‘THERE BETTER BE CHANGE’ AFTER HIS VIDEO HAS BEEN SEEN
– THE DOOR GETS SLAMMED AND LOCKED IN NICK’S FACE WHEN HE DARES TO ASK ‘WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?’
– THE GUY WHO WAS WITH SHIRLEY SHARES MORE DETAILS ON HIS INVESTIGATION INTO MN DAYCARE FRAUD
– THERE IS ALSO A MASSIVE TRANSPORTATION SCAM TIED TO THE SOMALI COMMUNITY
– GOV WALZ IS NOT APOLOGIZING FOR ANY OF THIS
– SOMALI WOMAN SAYS TRUMP SHOULD BE THANKING HER PEOPLE
– WELL, WELL, WELL, CBS NEWS ACTUALLY DID A REPORT ON THE MN FRAUD
– MN JUDGE TOSSES CONVICTION OF FRAUDSTER IN $7M GRIFT
– TWO HELICOPTERS COLLIDE IN NJ, AT LEAST ONE PERSON IS DEAD
– WALMART CLOSING ITS LAST TWO STORES IN THE PORTLAND, OR AREA — TOO MUCH CRIME
– NY GOV HOCHUL DENIES ‘NO TAX ON TIPS’ BENEFITS TO WORKERS – A WAITRESS RESPONDS
– CA MAY BE TAXING ITS BILLIONAIRES INTO LEAVING THE STATES
– HOW MUCH DOES AN AIRLINE PILOT MAKE? SEE THE PAY STUB OF ONE PILOT
– FIREFOX PROMISES A ‘KILL SWITCH’ THAT CAN/WILL SHUT OFF ITS A-I. DO YOU BELIEVE THEM?
– IS ANYONE SURPRISED THAT CHINA MAKES A TOY GUN THAT CAN FIRE REAL BULLETS?
– NEWSWEEK’S ‘MUST-READ’ PIECE ON THE LIES WE WERE TOLD ABOUT ‘GENDER AFFIRMING CARE’
– ADDENDUM TO THE NEWSWEEK PIECE IS THIS ARTICLE ON THE DUTCH STUDY MENTIONED IN REPORTING

ACCURATE
Other News Catching My Eye
– 104 YR OLD WWII VET SGT DOMINICK CRITELLI PERFORMS THE NATIONAL ANTHEM AT A NY ISLANDERS GAME
– WANT TO USE A GOOGLE SEARCH ONLINE IN AUSTRALIA YOU KNOW NEED AN I.D.
– WAYMO IS PAYING PEOPLE TO CLOSE DOORS ON ITS CARS
– THERE ARE ONLY FIVE SEARS STORES REMAINING IN AMERICA
– TROUBLED AUSSIE CRUISE SHIP CALLED ‘THE CORAL ADVENTURER’ IS GROUNDED ON A CORAL REEF
– DRUNK THIEF STEALS THEN RETURNS TWO MANDOLINS – INCLUDES AN APOLOGY NOTE
– A ‘FLORIDA MAN’ STORY – THIS ONE INVOLVES A CRUMBLING TOILET AND OUTBACK STEAKHOUSE